On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 3:55 AM, bob <b...@coolfone.comze.com> wrote:
> You will want to use a Hashtable. You fill in the keys with words and the
> values with definitions.
> On Monday, September 24, 2012 4:48:05 AM UTC-5, rajlaxmi jagdale wrote:
>> how to develop a app for dictionary?from where i should i start?
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rajlaxmi jagdale wrote: > how to develop a app for dictionary?from where i should i start? bob wrote:
> You will want to use a Hashtable. You fill in the keys with words and the > values with definitions.
No. Assuming the OP means "dictionary" in the normal English sense and not the restricted computer- programming sense, that won't be enough, and 'Hashtable' is an outdated type anyway, so don't recommend it.
>>> how to develop a app for dictionary?from where i [sic] should >>> i [sic] start?
Jovish P wrote:
> u [sic] can store all the words and meaning in a database > and u [sic] have to retrieve the meaning from the database using sqlite > querys > go thru database samples
This is highly insufficient. That's like saying, "Write a program."
In that database you can store words and meanings naively, but that leads to space issues, if you have a lot of words. Plurals, declensions, conjugations - all that stuff puffs up your storage requirements.
The OP should start by researching (GIYF) storage protocols for natural-language dictionaries. There are all kinds of compression and root+extension tricks to help reduce dictionary size and increase reliability.
Also, there already is a dictionary in the device, yes?
